Well, the gods must be fans of Australian Rules football as the opening round of matches in the London region were played in near perfect conditions.  Under those clear skies fans flocked to grounds across the capital where a series of hard-hitting and hard-fought matches were played out - by tea time half the fans were commiserating whilst the other half celebrated.

Every club appeared eager to put a message out to their rivals, and fewer did a better job than North London who ran out convincing winners at Bounds Green against the Swans by 110 points, scoring 23.9 against 5.7 and putting in a performance which absolutely dominated at times.  This was a show of serious intent, with the Lions surely seeing themselves as strong Finals contenders and the Swans wondering how they let the game get away from them after the first quarter.

Meanwhile the Wildcats also began the season strongly with vistory over Wimbledon. 

More details of Premiership games will come soon, see below for some of the Conference results. 

The London Hawks took on Tara 'Ladies' Gaelic football team in a match of Australian football at the 2008 ANZAC Sports Challenge.  This match is becoming a tradition at ANZAC Cup, with the first ever women's match in Britain taking place during the 2007 event, and the standard seems to be getting better every year.